Harry White (saxophonist)
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Harry Kinross White is an American-born classical saxophonist living in Switzerland.
White grew up in Mississippi and received his first music instruction there from Warren and Marti Lutz. He studied with saxophone professor Lawrence Gwozdz at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and with the pioneer of classical saxophone, Sigurd Raschèr.
He was a member of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet[1] from 1990 until 2001. As a member of this ensemble he performed in many of the important halls of Europe and the United States, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, the Royal Festival Hall in London, and Opera Bastille in Paris.
Since leaving the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet in 2001, he has been active as a saxophone soloist and free-lance musician. Critics consistently praise White for the unique, gentle tone quality he produces on his historical saxophone and for his dynamic interpretations of old and new works. He is fascinated with the lyrical possibilities of the saxophone and recently recorded songs of Edvard Grieg, as arranged for saxophone and piano, with the composer, pianist and "Lied" expert Edward Rushton.
He concertizes regularly with the organist Jakoba Marten-Büsing and with the pianists Hans Adolfsen, Edward Rushton and Todd Sisley. He also performs with the Swiss singer La Lupa[2].
He is a member of the Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra, a professional saxophone orchestra of 12 musicians, based in southern Germany.
As a soloist he has appeared with many orchestras, including Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Bochumer Symphoniker, Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, and the Philharmonic Orchestras in Freiburg and Heidelberg. He performs regularly in the National Orchestra Mannheim. Together with the Raschèr Quartet he performed with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at the New Year's Eve concert 2002. Concert dates 2007 http://www.harrywhite.net/en/dates/
[edit] Recordings
- spectrum saxofonis (with Todd Sisley, piano/harpsichord), Musicaphon M56836
- spectrum saxofonis vol. 2 (with Jakoba Marten-Büsing, organ, Musicaphon M-56843
- Summer Night (with Edward Rushton, piano), Musicaphon M-56851
- Goethe "Das Leben, es ist gut", Deutsche Grammophon CD-472-807-2
- Die Felshöhle des jungen Hermann Hesse, Deutsche Grammophon CD-471-899-2
- Amor (with La Lupa, Voice, and Fabian Müller, Violoncello) Musikszene Schweiz MGB-CD-6188
- Several recordings with the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet List of their recordings
